Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon virgin mother and child
Holy infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace
Sleep in heavenly peace
. . .Brought traditional enemies together but it left the defenders of
the measure without the votes of their strongest supporters.
President Johnson originally proposed an outright ban covering
discrimination by everyone for every type of housing, but it had no
chance from the start and everyone in Congress knew it.
A compromise was painfully worked out in the House Judiciary
Committee.
In Los Angeles today comedian Lenny Bruce died of what was
believed to be an overdose of narcotics.
Bruce was fourty-two years old.
Dr. Martin Luther King says he does not intend to cancel plans for an
open housing march Sunday into the Chicago suburb of Cicero.
Cook County sheriff Richard Ogleby asked King to call of the
March, and the police in Cicero said they would ask the National
Guard be called out if it is held.
King, now in Atlanta, Georgia, plans to return to Chicago Tuesday.
In Chicago, Richard Speck, accused murderer of nine student nurses,
was brought before a grand jury today for indictment.
The nurses were found stabbed and strangled in their Chicago
Apartment.
In Washington, the atmosphere was tense today as a special
sub-committee of the House Committee on Un-American
Activities continued its probe into anti –Vietnam war protest.
Demonstrators were forcibly evicted from the hearings when they
began chanting anti-war slogans.
Former Vice-President Richard Nixon says that unless there is a
substantial increase in the present war effort in Vietnam, the U.S.
should look forward to five more years of war.
In a speech before the Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in
New York, Nixon also said opposition to the war in this country is
the greatest single weapon working against the U.S.
That’s the 7 o’clock edition of the news. Good-night.
Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon virgin mother and child
Holy infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace
Sleep in heavenly peace
Voz del presentador: Charlie O'Donnell
Guitarra: Paul Simon
Piano: Art Garfunkel
Comentarios: La pista consiste en dos capas sonoras superpuestas:
Art Garfunkel canta el clásico “Silent Night” en una versión simple, pura, angelical. Es una melodía que todos reconocen, asociada con la paz, la inocencia y la Navidad.
Sobre esa base, suena un noticiero hablado, una locución realista en estilo, escrita por Paul Simon, leída por el locutor Charlie O'Donnell (no era un noticiero real, pero sí basado en hechos reales del 3 de agosto de 1966). A medida que la canción avanza, la voz del noticiero va subiendo en volumen, y la canción va quedando ahogada por los titulares: noticias de asesinatos, protestas raciales, represión policial, la guerra de Vietnam, y la muerte de Martin Luther King.
En entrevistas ambos músicos reconocieron que el montaje fue una forma de denunciar la hipocresía social: cómo se puede cantar sobre paz mientras se normaliza la guerra, el racismo, y la opresión. En 1966, esto fue extremadamente provocador. Usar “Silent Night”, un símbolo casi sagrado, para hacer una crítica al estado de la nación, era un gesto artístico valiente y polémico.